David Eduardo wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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No, I did not predict there would be no stations on SW back in 1988.
However, even in 1967 when I bought an Ecuadorian station that had an
inactive SW permit, I realized the growth of local AM and shortwave would
preclude the need for domestic SW on the Tropical band and decided not to
build the permit. Over the years, we have seen a profusion of local
stations
in areas previously only served by SW and, thus, a reduction of SW
stations.

You bought nothing.

OK, be nit-picky. My company bought from one Fausto Vallejo Silva the assets
of Radio Amaguaña, licencee of HCSP1 595 kHz in San Pedro de Amaguaña,
Provincia del Pichincha, Ecuador, and the permit for a tropical band SW
stations in the same canton of San Pedro de Amaguaña. The AM was bought on
the condition that the licence would be moved to Quito and reassigned; the
SW permit was left to expire or do whatever unbuilt permits did.

A friend who syndicates programming internationally noted after a trip to
about 14 sub-Saharan African nations that cities that previously had no
local radio and depended on reception from a larger city or the capital
now
had as many as several dozen FM stations, some parts of networks, some
local. All have virtually replaced listening to distant stations of any
kind.

The Alaskan DRM concept, if it works and they can finance it, changes the
usage of SW, but makes the long distance coverage of SW a viable concept
again.

But for now, and into the forseeable future, DRM = QRM. Pay attention,
'Eduardo'.

How can you interfere with an ever declining analog station base?

You and your pals should know. It's called IBOC. Pay attention, 'Eduardo', IBOC
= QRM.